State / loyalist estimate · not a score

Tehran Times

🇮🇷IR · newspaper · state-controlled · tehrantimes.com

Spectrum	Left Centre-left Centre Centre-right Right State / loyalist An estimate, not a score.
Founded	1979-05-21 no source on file — the date is not confirmed by us
Headquarters	Villa Street, Taleghani Avenue, Tehran, Iran no source on file
Funding	Tehran Times is owned by Mehr News Agency (part of Mehr Media Group).
Reach	Outlet's own About page states readership across 80+ countries and 'over 10,000 daily visitors'; no independent traffic-measurement source was checked.
In its own words	Describes itself as: "About Us page quotes founder Ayatollah Beheshti's description, displayed on the paper's office wall, that it 'is not the newspaper of the government; rather it is a loud voice of the Islamic Revolution and the oppressed people of the world.'."
Identity	Wikipedia

Bias we have measured in their reporting

Asserted vs attributed

headline states the seizure flat; the body attributes it to the claimant — in 1 article

Attribution

the toll is attributed to a body that is described but not named — in 1 article

Headline against body

headline states the seizure flat; the body attributes it to the IRGC — in 1 article

How the objectors are framed

opposition is described as protesters speaking for civilians — in 1 article

From 1758 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.

Claims we checked that rest on their reporting: 1 misleading3 disputed3 unverified1 true
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.

Ownership

Holder	Type	Stake	Control	Instrument	Since	Source
Mehr News Agency (Mehr Media Group)	company	not disclosed	yes	equity	—	link
Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (Islamic Development Organization, IIDO) — Iranian state body	state body	not disclosed	yes	equity	—	link

Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.

Editorial control

Mohammad Sarfi

Editor-in-Chief, Tehran Times

Named and quoted as Editor-in-Chief of Tehran Times in the outlet's own coverage of the 2025 SCO Media Cooperation Forum.

Mohammad Mahdi Rahmati

Managing Director / CEO, Mehr Media Group (parent group of Tehran Times and Mehr

Appointed managing director of Mehr Media Group on 17 April 2023, succeeding Mohammad Shojaeian Zanjani, per Mehr News Agency's own reporting.

Mohammad Beheshti

Founder, Tehran Times (1979)

Iranian cleric and 1979 revolution-era political figure credited by Tehran Times' own About page and by Wikipedia as the paper's 1979 founder; died 1981.